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Vidura (Mental Health and Motivation) School Speakers
Inspiring speaker, engineer and dancer for educational events
Vidura is a dynamic mental health and motivational speaker whose life story is a powerful testament to resilience and success as an engineer and dancer. He overcome significant challenges, including depression during his teenage years and navigating a difficult upbringing, Vidura's journey is an inspiring example of triumph over adversity. His talks resonate deeply with audiences of all ages, particularly young people facing their own struggles.
Media Features (As seen on the BBC)
Speaker's story has been featured by the UK Mind mental health charity and Happiful magazine, offers valuable insights into coping with mental health challenges and adversity, making his talks ideal for motivational and mental health-focused events.
Read Publications:
Happiful Magazine - Body-Popping My Way Back to Health
UK Mind Charity - Street-Dancing, Depression and Me
Vidura featured on the BBC Sunday Morning Live Show as a guest to share his story of mental health struggles and dancing.
15 - Episode 5 on the 30th of June - skip to 45mins - Watch it here
A Speaker with a Story
From a young age, Vidura faced significant challenges, including growing up in a difficult environment after relocating during childhood. Despite severe depression, academic setbacks, instability, and financial hardships, Vidura persevered, eventually becoming a successful engineer and accomplished street-dancer. Along the way, he connected with some of the world’s top street-dancers, adding another layer to his inspiring journey.
Speaker Experience
Vidura has a wealth of experience delivering speeches to all ages.
A Speaker That Can Dance
Invite Vidura to share his dance journey and how he overcame challenges to become a professional artist. Energise any educational event with incredible body-popping and street-dancing.
Click here to see more pictures and videos of Vidura's dance performances.
Perfect for Graduation Days
As a motivational speaker, Vidura has given hundreds of public talks. He also brings extensive experience in the education sector, leading workshops, school assembly talks for both primary and secondary students, and university engagements across the UK and Europe.
Vidura has delivered educational events at over 200 schools including:
- Imperial College and London School of Economics graduation speech
- University of Groningen
- Engagements at schools with Inspiring the Future
- Primary and Secondary school engagements across England (Balfour Primary School, Southmead Primary School, Latimer Arts College)
- True Stories
- Various Toastmaster clubs (Reached district level at Toastmaster's humorous speech contest)
Day Itinerary*
Introduction
- This part of the presentation covers Vidura's life journey and how he became both an engineer and a dancer.
Lessons Learnt, Mental Health and More
- Using lessons learnt during Vidura's journey the presentation covers the following: achieving your goals, benefit of hard work, overcoming obstacles and failure, stress management and mental health, making sound judgments, benefits of exercise and success.
* The activities may vary on the day depending on the length of the sessions and the age and ability of the participants.
Cost
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Testimonials
The section of your talk about you and how you have dealt with setbacks in your life was really and truly inspirational. Year 6 have SATs soon after they return to school, and some were worried about these tests already in the weeks before Easter. Hearing about the ups and downs of your journey was exactly what they needed - you were honest and real and proved that hard work will pay off eventually!
Rebecca Ellis, St Margaret's Junior School
"Your speech was perfectly tailored to the audience and gave a strong and powerful message to our students about resilience and positivity. I loved watching you dancing at the end.
Viki Chinn, London School of Economics, Careers Department
"Thanks so much for an excellent speech! I loved your body popping”, thanks again for a wonderful speech."
Sarah Gilfillan, 1st London Toastmaster Club President
As a fellow speaker, I was impressed by how well Vidura connected with the audience and managed the energy in the room. Speeches on the stark reality of living with mental health issues can sometimes be daunting to hear, even for those who have been there themselves. Vidura by injecting his speech with humor avoided this trap and took us on a very moving journey through his dark and bright moments. The journey that resonated with everyone who had a first- or second-hand knowledge of a mental illness, which was pretty much every person in the room. If you want to book a motivational speaker to inspire young people who battle mental health issues, Vidura is the person you are looking for!
Gosia Syta, Toastmaster's Club President
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